HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081241520
Bassin de Nyengwe
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 10 administrative regions across 3 countries : Bururi, Fizi, Lake Tanganyika, Makamba, Nyanza-Lac +3
Sub-basin area
2 207,1km²
Upstream area
24 456,9km²
Discharge
141,06m³/s
Mean elev.
975m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,5°C
Annual rain
1 192mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
188mm/an
PET
1 571mm
AET
985mm
Mean slope
4,4°
Water table
174cm
Forest
12%
Crops
6%
Urban
5%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)